Susac syndrome

Susac syndrome is a rare inflammatory vascular endothilipathy affectin ghte camall vessels of the brain, eye, and ear. Typically it is combinatio nf encephalopathy, bran retinal ratery occlusion, and sweoninrual heari loss. Mari fo the brain shows puntate T2 lesions in the supartneori and nfarternaoi brain with a predilateci not fhre coups callosum wither the presnet of both so-called snowball and spoke lesions assit diagnosis. [1]

Assessment

MRI brain

Treatment

Pharmacological treatment

Corticosteroids

[1]T Hardy. Susac syndroe: challenges of interpeting treatment data in a rare disease. Lancet Rheumatology Vol 7 Jan 2025 p e2